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By: Henrietta Lidchi

ISBN: 9781526163622
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, imperial and military history to shed light on the acquisition and appropriation of objects during British colonial warfare.


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By: Henrietta Lidchi

ISBN: 9781526139207
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, imperial and military history to shed light on the acquisition and appropriation of objects during British colonial warfare. The authors offer a nuanced view of how the amassing of objects was governed and understood within military culture.


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By: Morny Joy

ISBN: 9780719055249
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Religious themes have permeated Luce Irigary's thought from the beginning, but this book is the only major study of this dimension of her work -- both her rejection of traditional western religions, and her recent explorations of eastern religions. -- .


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By: Timothy G. Fehler

ISBN: 9781526162472
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This volume explores the ideas, institutions, and experiences that shaped Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist charity in early modern Europe.


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By: Mariam Motamedi Fraser

ISBN: 9781526174802
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Dog politics is a critique of dogs' 'species story,' a scientific story which insists that dogs belong 'naturally' with humans. It asks what evidence exists to support this story, what practical consequences, for dogs, follow from it, and how it is woven into broader scientific shifts in understandings of species, animals, and animal behaviours


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By: Michael Worboys

ISBN: 9781526167729
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book reveals the varied and often eccentric lives of the Victorians who helped define dogs as we know them today.


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By: Jonathan Blaney

ISBN: 9781526132680
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A practical guide to digital history, which shows just how much can be done without writing any code. This book will give researchers in history or related fields the skills and confidence to approach existing digital resources and to create their own. Assuming no prior knowledge, the guide focuses on hands-on techniques for working with text.


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By: Nicoleta Cinpoes

ISBN: 9781526127150
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a 'pattern and precedent' for the golden generation of early modern playwrights. -- .


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By: Gundula Gahlen

ISBN: 9781526173461
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By: Rowland Atkinson

ISBN: 9781784995300
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book critically analyses the contemporary home and its close relationship to fear and security, a relationship fuelled by the corporate and political manufacturing of fear, the triumph of neoliberal models of home-ownership and related modes of social individualisation and risk that permeate contemporary society. -- .


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By: Rowland Atkinson

ISBN: 9781784995317
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book critically analyses the contemporary home and its close relationship to fear and security, a relationship fuelled by the corporate and political manufacturing of fear, the triumph of neoliberal models of home-ownership and related modes of social individualisation and risk that permeate contemporary society. -- .


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By: Mary Venner

ISBN: 9781784992729
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book looks beyond the apparently united and generally self-congratulatory statements of The United Nations, other major multinational organisations and many large bilateral aid donors to examine what actually happened when they tried to work together in restoring stability and establishing governance in the territory.


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By: Elisabeth Bronfen

ISBN: 9780719083266
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Addresses the question of how identity is formed as a result of corporeal and cultural positioning, by mapping Dorothy Richardson's early modernist text, Pilgrimage, against our postmodern interest in real and imagined geographies. -- .


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By: Susan Doran

ISBN: 9780719086069
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth's reign -- .


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By: Susan Doran

ISBN: 9781784993597
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth's reign -- .


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By: Geertje Mak

ISBN: 9780719089978
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. -- .


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By: Geertje Mak

ISBN: 9780719086908
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This groundbreaking analysis of nineteenth-century European clinical case histories of hermaphrodites shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. -- .


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By: Andrew Tate

ISBN: 9780719076619
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland's career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction -- .


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By: John Bowers

ISBN: 9781526167491
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book draws on the author's expertise as a KC and original interviews with political insiders to tell the story of declining ethical standards during the government of Boris Johnson and propose concrete reforms.


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By: Eric Rasmussen

ISBN: 9780719081996
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By: Laura Cahillane

ISBN: 9781784995119
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book provides an account of the drafting of the Irish Free Constitution of 1922, analysing the document in its historical context and exploring the reasons for its lack of success -- .


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By: Laura Cahillane

ISBN: 9781526100573
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book provides an account of the drafting of the Irish Free Constitution of 1922, analysing the document in its historical context and exploring the reasons for its lack of success -- .


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By: Janet Clare

ISBN: 9780719044823
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is a collection of plays and entertainments which were originally published and performed when England was nominally a republic or commonwealth. The texts illustrate how the dramatists devised new aesthetics in response to the ideological concerns of the Republic.


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By: Marc Geddes

ISBN: 9781526136800
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is a book that provokes a debate about accountability in the House of Commons. Based on unprecedented access, it reveals different ways that MPs and officials interpret scrutiny. Some of their approaches are more conducive to effective scrutiny than others, which raises interesting questions about the effectiveness of Parliament. -- .

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